Sunday, July 5, 2009

I apologise that I haven't had much of a chance to give updates on coming events. The following are events that are coming soon. These events are part of the 2009 Yulgilbar-Think Big Grand Prix, a large chess competition with prizes (all strong events are normally part of the grand prix).

The 2009 Freytag Checkmate Open was held at Rostrevor College in Adelaide from the 4-5th of July. There was a strong turnout of 40 players with top seed being IM (GM next rating period) David Smerdon (2526). This was a class 5 Grand Prix event.

Here are the final results:1st David Smerdon (2526) on 6/72nd FM (IM next rating period) James Morris (2089) on 5.5/73rd-5th Trevor Tao (2397), Yi Yuan (2199) and GM Darryl Johansen (2459) on 5/7